Elizabeth Lemont is a painter based in Lexington Massachusetts who works in watercolor, gouache and acrylic. Her work is expressive and impressionistic. She’s fascinated by plants’ diversity, their medicinal properties and the vital role they play in our world. She loves how flowers’ random shapes, texture and colors interact with one another. Her work aims to convey the essence of each flower in the moment she’s painting – its color, texture and ephemeral beauty.
She began painting while growing up in Poland. Spending summers at her grandmother’s farm, she spent hours sketching and drawing the meadows, fruit trees, and landscapes around her. Those images — and the otherwise silence of the farm — are embedded in her mind. At 12, she emigrated to the Unites States and settled in western Massachusetts. Her love of drawing led her to study art at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston where she graduated with a BFA in graphic design.
After ten years of working in design studios throughout Boston, she left the design world to focus on her painting and has been painting ever since. Living in Lexington, a place steeped not only in history but in beauty, reminds her of the bucolic nature of her childhood. Her art is an attempt to recapture those simpler times by observing the landscapes and plants that surround them. Today, far from her grandmother’s farm,she finds inspiration in her own garden -- growing flowers, vegetables and herbs and using them as subjects in her paintings.
She has exhibited around New England in solo and group shows, including the Newburyport and Wickford Art Festivals and the Concord Art Association.